Inspector Ghote plays a joker University of London Press insists that Poirot stays in

insists that Poirot stays in a crumbling mansion by the coast

which will span continents

Castus discovers that the emperor's son Crispus aims to depose his father and restore the old ways of Rome

Haggling for scraps in the market

Inspector Ghote plays a joker University of London Press insists that Poirot stays inInspector Ghote embarks on one of his strangest cases when he is ordered to prevent a murder the killing of a precious flamingo in the Bombay zoo. And then there is the racehorse fancied to win the local Derby, which gets replaced by a donkey Ghote finds things going disastrously as bit by bit he unearths the traces of a monstrous practical joker. But then the fun stops and Inspector Ghote has a more serious murder on his hands.